Beth Cox

The Intermarket Group’s eCommerce Almanac reports that the average CEO from its listed firms that are publicly held earned just under $225,000 in cash compensation during 1997, according to a survey of SEC filings. E*Trade CEO Christos Cotsakos led the pack with $447,609 in salary and bonus while Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos brought up the rear […]

Los Angeles-based Lexico Publishing Group LLC has hired JSM+ Communications as its first agency-of- record for its Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com sites. Billings were estimated at $3 million to $5 million. “Lexico is the kind of account that we covet,” said Scott Daly, executive vice president at Santa Monica, CA-based JSM. “They’re entrepreneurial, growth- oriented and […]

Unique Media Network named Unique Media Board Member Brian Weiner as executive vice president and Eastern regional sales manager to be based in New York. Prior to joining Unique Media, Brian Weiner served on Unique’s board of directors and as sales manager for the Attitude Network, parent of Internet gaming site, Happy Puppy, as well […]

Seattle-based Go2Net Inc., a network of technology- and community-driven Web sites, signed an agreement with barnesandnoble.com, making it the exclusive bookseller for the Go2Net Network. barnesandnoble.com will be prominently featured across network sites, including MetaCrawler, Silicon Investor, PlaySite and 100hot. The agreement also provides for a barnesandnoble.com Business Solutions affiliates program on HyperMart, Go2Net’s free […]

InfoSpace.com, a provider of private label content and commerce solutions, signed an agreement to become the exclusive provider of yellow and white page directories, maps, directions and e-mail searches on EarthLink’s Personal Start Page. “InfoSpace.com is a leading provider of the integrated real world content that our members demand,” said Howard Lefkowitz, EarthLink’s vice president […]

Toronto-based Warp 10 Technologies said that it has, in affiliation with Beyond.com, begun selling software titles targeted at advertising and creative professionals at its new AdsGallery.com business to business portal site. Beyond.com is an Internet software superstore offering immediate electronic downloads of thousands of software titles. Featured software on the AdsGallery.com site includes creative production […]

Web measurement firm Media Metrix Inc. has filed for an initial stock offering that would raise an estimated for a $48.3 million. New York-based Media Metrix didn’t disclose the number of shares it hopes to sell or the price it expects to get in its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company […]

Ernst & Young, the professional services giant, has launched a multimillion dollar, worldwide, integrated advertising campaign promoting the value that it delivers to clients. The campaign promotes four client-serving strengths: working in tandem, speed, future-orientation and embracing a client’s view of value. “Ernst & Young just completed its fourth year of record-setting double-digit growth,” said […]

MetaCreations Corp. delivered Headline Studio, a new app for the creation of animated, broadcast-quality Web advertising banners. The company said Headline Studio contains all the necessary tools in an easily accessible format to quickly create animated GIF banner ads that can be viewed on any browser at multiple bandwidths. Using the product, the company plans […]

Telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom signed an agreement with CheckFree, a provider of electronic billing and payment, that will allow MCI WorldCom residential customers the option to receive and pay their bills using the Internet. Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. To register for electronic bill delivery and payment, MCI WorldCom customers can enroll […]

New data from the BizRate.com Consumer Fulfillment Index (CFI) reveal a more savvy and sophisticated online shopper, and confirmation that females are increasingly shopping online. The index, which represents trend data culled from hundreds of thousands of consumer surveys continuously gathered at the point-of-purchase by BizRate.com between June 1997 and January 1999, strongly points to […]

New York City-based Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) promoted James Smith to national director of advertising sales and hired Allison Corson as Western region manager. Both will work to offer integrated marketing and advertising opportunities across the SOE network, the company said. Over the past two and a half years in various positions at Sony Online, […]